Bigg Taj FT Dj Bunty - All The Years

We've always loved Bigg Taj, so there's much love for this collab with DJ Bunty. 'Nuff Said.

Hector Bizerk / Solareye - Tonight

Going to See Hector Bizerk with Solareye (Stanley Odd) in support tonight in Bloc. Free. Starts 9pm. Dig it. Solareye's new single, available as a free download from Stanley Odd's bandcamp. Support some local music.

Loki - Omnilash

You need this in your lives.

We got a sneak preview of this in the studio a few months back, but here's the finished version. Lyrically dense and with a sickening flow, the instrumental just makes it even more sick.

HECTOR BIZERK - DRUMS. RAP. YES.

Stripped-down Scottish rap duo Hector Bizerk have put their debut album DRUMS. RAP. YES. up for stream on Soundcloud today - the album will be available via iTunes next week. It's a feverishly intense, densely literate take on Scottish hip-hop, as drummer Audrey Tait flexes and batters her way through complex polyrhythms and stop-start time changes, while rapper Louie (whose excellent solo album The Discernible Truth is also well worth checking out) constructs intelligent, considered rhymes with technical precision and fevered enthusiasm. It's a terrifically exciting debut, and is sure to set the Scottish hip-hop scene, and the musical landscape in general, on fire. We're planning on getting Hector Bizerk in for a chat on an upcoming Shallow Rave show, so stay tuned to the blog for news. Read Texture's interview with Hector Bizerk over at The Skinny.

Profisee - Diggin' In The Crates

Profisee is one of the most important people in the Edinburgh and Scottish hip-hop scenes: a founder member of the legendary Scotland Yard Emcees, over the years he has worked with big-name producers such as Starkey and Hexstatic, and was the vocal half of epic electro-bass duo Great Ezcape.

Whether dropping a guest verse, producing his own beats with partner M as Cloak X Dagger, or collaborating with local Edinburgh heads like Nasty P or Yush2K, or in new collabs with producers such as Dam Mantle, the legendary 'weatherman' has an incredible command of words, dropping deep philosophy and prescient politics with a flare and style all his own. Live, he's an old-school performer, fiixated on making a crowd move, always full of energy.

Prof's just dropped a set of old, rare and lost tracks on his Soundcloud, as a crowd-hyper for his new album project, 'From All Angles.' It features collabs with old Yard playmate Jinx, among others. Jump on these downloads like the proverbial hot cakes they are: devour them. This is a wicked collection of beats and rhymes from an intelligent, street-smart emcee who has been a vital part of the Scottish hip-hop scene since its inception.

Diggin' In The Crates by Profisee

Soundcloud: Six of the Best

 

This week's six-track selection from the best new 'isht on Soundcloud, as selected by Texture.

Carry Me Home by stanleyodd

SF - Only Bucky Stays Dead by [SF]

Strangelets by Satellite Dub

something to celebrate by p.WRECKS

Meszahline - Now What feat. Bobbi Dahl (Vgnv Touch) by VGNV

My Phone Turns Off In My Pockets by Ken Da Koalah

New Big Tajj

Glasgow's boombox juggernaut and bastion of Scottish hip-hop, Big Tajj delivers more conscious, intelligent rhymes and shit-hot hooks, along with a cluster of awesome scottish talent. Sacrifice ft Mandeep Sethi is a big favourite, with it's distorted flutes backing sharp flows on the subjects of imperialism, colonialism and identity. Just give it a spin, and support your friendly local MC.

More Stanley Odd

Awesome...

DFRNT and Profisee

How You (Deal With It) by Profisee

LARGENESS.

Young Fathers - Fevers Worse (Blessings remix)

Once upon a time, there was a band called De La Soul, whose spectacular blend of high-camp, funk riffs, boom-bap and lyrical acrobatics influenced generations of musicians and truly defined 90s hip-hop. If this is news to you, you'll be bowled over by the Young Fathers, an Edinburgh-based hip-hop act who seem to have nailed everything from the psychedelic golf wear, to the body-popping riddims, to the infectious hooks of Native Tongues' finest.

For anyone else, Young Fathers are one of the most stupidly entertaining Scottish hip-hop acts out there, brimming with wicked hooks, freewheeling verse and crisp boom-bap, they dress like Andre 3000 and sound like Too Live Crew colliding with the Wiggles. Awshum.

Their new single Fevers Worse (out now) has been reworked by fellow Scottish faves and LuckyMe staple The Blessings. We've got it right here for you to download. Get it in the boomboxes.

Young Fathers - Fevers Worse (Blessings remix)

Bigg Taj Mixtape

The monstrously talented Bigg Taj has got his shit together on bandcamp, and for the meagre price of three bucks (less than a pint in most places), you can get ten tracks of Scotlands hottest beatboxer ripping it up bigstyle. Featuring appearances from Scatabrainz, Becca Star, Kaddy Kay, and more of the Scottish hip-hop underground, it's a mix of skits, beatboxing and Taj's surprisingly delicate vox. Whilst Taj can rattle off armour-plated boom-bap like an 808 (see below), the 2010 mixtape sees him exposing a much more emotional side of his character, singing rather tender songs about lost love.

Dude's a fucking legend.

Support your local beatbox

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Stanley Odd - Oddvent

Set to be Scotland's number one export very soon, Stanley Odd are celebrating December by giving away a free track, video or remix every day, up to the 25th. Combining hip-hop, electronica and indie, Stanley Odd have been gradually rising throughout 2010, with the launch of their debut album Oddio, gigs across the country and a session for Vic Galloway's Radio 1 show. File under "next big thing".

Stanley Odd - Oddvent Day #7 - free download of Sun Dance

The full Oddvent calendar can be accessed at stanleyodd.com
Interview and radio slot coming very soon.

Texture - Non-Sequitr

"Scottish Hip-hop is a non-sequitr"...
With the Silver Age EP (featuring Kid Ritalin) dropping tonight, here's a preview of what the new material from Texture sounds like... I've heard him dropping this a number of times at Slams and spoken word nights over the years, and that "Bacardi Breezers" line still makes me grin.

Video by KD McCune, Beats & Production: Salem Anders


From weaponizer "Big up all the Scottish hip-hop heroes who inspired this verse: Harlequinade, Tickle, Laughing Gear, the Penpushers, Asthmatic Astronaut, J Seal and Livesciences, Quietman, Stanley Odd, Fountainbridge Collective, Lifeshows, Soom T, Salem Anders, Morphamish, 5hit-Hop Ninja Terminatorz, Krowne, Profisee and Ema J, Monkeytribe, B-Burg, Dan Bland, the Volume! crew, Surface Emp, Loki and Skatabrainz, Verse 1, Abdominal Showmen, Yush2k crew, all LuckyMe crew, MCF crew, Jee4ce, Nasty P, Vigilante, Spytec, Granite Emcees, Nu Urban Frontier, Nafees, all Dropzone Records crew... and to anyone writing real beats and rhymes... hit us up at Black Lantern Music. PEACE."

'Nuff said.